Read Think Pray is a daily reflection on the Revised Common Lectionary Readings for the previous Sunday. The idea is simply to get you - reading, thinking and praying about the scriptures you heard at your Sunday Service.

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Read Luke 13:10-17

Friday

Read Luke 13:10-17

10 One Sabbath Jesus was teaching in
a synagogue. 11A woman there had an evil spirit that had made her
ill for eighteen years; she was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12When
Jesus saw her, he called out to her, “Woman, you are free from your illness!” 13He
placed his hands on her, and at once she straightened herself up and praised
God.

14 The official of the synagogue was
angry that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, so he spoke up and said to the
people, “There are six days in which we should work; so come during those days
and be healed, but not on the Sabbath!”

15 The Lord answered him, “You
hypocrites! Any one of you would untie your ox or your donkey from the stall
and take it out to give it water on the Sabbath. 16Now here is this
descendant of Abraham whom Satan has kept bound up for eighteen years; should
she not be released on the Sabbath?” 17His answer made his enemies
ashamed of themselves, while the people rejoiced over all the wonderful things
that he did.

Think

"When Jesus saw her..." (vs 12)

When I read this story I imagine the bent lady hidden at the back of the
synagogue with all the important people sitting at the front.Jesus sees past the self important to the
least of these.